Leadership is hard to train on.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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